Experience Holiday Magic

The GSS is taking you to experience VanDusen Festival of Lights, a magical winter wonderland with over one million lights decorating 15 acres of VanDusen Botanical Garden!

We’re offering discounted tickets for Grad Students for this incredible event and you can go on any night (valid for ONE night) you desire between Dec 1, 2018 and Jan 6, 2019, (EXCEPT from Dec 21 to 26, 2018).

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JUMP START YOUR CAREER 

The GSS, in collaboration with the Centre for Student Involvement and Careers (CSIC), brings you an afternoon of activities designed to enhance your career and jumpstart your post-graduate success with a new headshot and polished job search skills.

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BECOME A STUDENT MENTOR

Are you interested in mentoring the next generation of grad students?

This program matches an undergraduate student (2nd year or above) with a graduate student mentor in a similar field of study to provide guidance and insight into career, school, and life. Mentor and mentee pairs will have opportunities to meet as well as participate in group workshops and social events.

You can find out more at the Launch Event on November 19th.

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Save the date….

We got some great events coming up in December and the new year. Check out our EVENTS  page or social media for the latest

We’re recruiting for and Event Production Assistant, who supports the GSS team in setting up for our events and ensuring that GSS venues are well maintained. You’ll also be supporting other grad students, by making sure the events they attend are properly organized.

APPLY NOW

We have 1 slot  available for a graduate student representative to Grad Council for a 1-year term, please nominate yourself by sending an email to aa@gss.ubc.ca containing you name, email, degree, department, faculty and one paragraph detailing the reasons of why you would like to serve on Grad Council.

The deadline for nominations is noon on Tuesday November 13th, 2018.

Election will happen on Thursday, November 15^th, 2018 during the Graduate Student Society Council Meeting, which takes place in the Michael Kingsmill Forum, the Nest (4th floor) at 5:30pm. Attendance in person is strongly encouraged when your application is reviewed as there may be questions about your candidacy and more nominees than available seats.

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Community Announcements

GRADUATE STUDENT EVENTS

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

 

Breaking Patterns of Procrastination

Thu, Nov 15 | 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Event and registration details:

grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16983-breaking-patterns-procrastination

Submitting your Thesis | Fri, Nov 16

Workshop: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM @Thea Koerner House

grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17181-submitting-your-thesis

Webinar: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17182-submitting-your-thesis-webinar

 

The Steps of Planning your Doctoral Exam | Fri, Nov 16

Workshop: 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM @Thea Koerner House

grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17183-steps-planning-your-doctoral-exam

Webinar: 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM

grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17184-steps-planning-your-doctoral-exam-webinar

 

THE VANCOUVER INSTITUTE

The Vancouver institute has an exciting program of lectures over the next few months covering topics from contemporary politics to evidence in medicine and global economics.

Program – Fall 2018

Website: http://vancouverinstitute.ca

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheVancouverInstitute/

 

UBC FALL CONVOCATION

November 28-30th, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

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We’re gearing up for 3MT 2019 @UBC.  Workshops start in January 2019, heats in February, and the semi-finals and final on Tue, Mar 12 and Thu, Mar 14.

Hosting a heat?  Interested in participating but need to know more? To obtain a 3MT Heat Organizer Package or to request a 3MT Tips and Strategies workshop, please e-mail graduate.pathways@ubc.ca.  

Please forward the information below to your graduate students: 

Registration is now open for:

Statistics II: Statistical Considerations When Planning Your Research Project (via Webinar)

Tue, Nov 20 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Event and registration details:

grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16969-statistics-ii-statistical-considerations-when-planning-your-research-project

 

Thesis Boot Camp

Wed, Nov 21 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Event and registration details:

grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17223-thesis-boot-camp

 

Leveraging your Strengths to Strategize for Success

Thu, Nov 22 | 12:30 – 4:30 PM

Event and registration details:

grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/16989-leveraging-your-strengths-strategize-success

 

Seats still available for:

Submitting your Thesis | Fri, Nov 16

Workshop: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM @Thea Koerner House grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17181-submitting-your-thesis 

Webinar: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17182-submitting-your-thesis-webinar

 

The Steps of Planning your Doctoral Exam | Fri, Nov 16

Workshop: 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM @Thea Koerner House grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17183-steps-planning-your-doctoral-exam

Webinar: 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17184-steps-planning-your-doctoral-exam-webinar

 

Check out community.grad.ubc.ca for other opportunities including:

 

Career Building & Professional Effectiveness

Postdoc and Grad Student Opportunities at UCalgary (Pulmonary Immunology, Inflammation & Host Defense) | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/5443

Graduate Career Exploration Series: Working in Government, Nov 14 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5414

Group Advising for Grad Students, Nov 19 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5137

Employer on Campus: Dialpad, Nov 19 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5435

Job opportunity: GSS Event Production Assistant, apply by Nov 23 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/5437 

 

Graduate School Success

Literature Reviews Workshop, Nov 14 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5179

Citation Management: Mendeley and Zotero, Nov 16 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5426

Citation Management: RefWorks, Nov 16 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5407

 

Community Building Events and Other Opportunities

Cultural Safety and Leadership with Harley Eagle, Nov 15 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5004

Total Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution (Book Launch), Nov 15 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/5441

Peer Programs Day, Nov 15 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/5384

UBC Map the System Competition, register by Jan 28 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/5442

 

Thank you,

Jacqui. 

Jacqui Brinkman, MSc
Director of Graduate Student Professional Development
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus |  Musqueam Traditional Territory
170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 827 4578 | Fax 604 822 5802
jacqui.brinkman@ubc.ca | @ubcgradschool
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/

Greetings from your neighbor, Faculty of Forestry Student Services office.

We are going to make a bake sale and clothing sale on November 13, 11 am to 2 pm at our building’s Atrium.

We apologize for a short notice, but we’d appreciate if you kindly share the poster attached with your students and faculty/staff members. 

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Have a wonderful long weekend! 

Sincerely, 

Rumiko Tachibana
Undergraduate Program Assistant
Faculty of Forestry | Dean’s Office
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
2609 – 2424 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 822 1834
rumiko.tachibana@ubc.ca
http://www.forestry.ubc.ca

The Community Meeting for LFS faculty, staff and students will take place on Wednesday Nov 21, 2018 at 12:00-1:00 in MCML 154, MacMillan Building. Coffee and cookies will be provided.

Click here to add this meeting to your Outlook calendar.

Agenda
12:00-12:05 Dean’s message
12:05-12:15 United Way presentation – Crystal Lau
12:15-12:45 Opioid Crisis presentation – Amanda Unruh
12:45-1:00 Indigenous students – Joel Liman

I’m the Coordinator for the Language Sciences Initiative, writing to you on behalf of our steering committee.  We wanted to bring to your attention a talk we have coming up on Tuesday, Nov. 20^th at 5:00pm in the C.K. Choi building (Room 120).  We’re very pleased to welcome Dr. Luisa Maffi, Co-founder and Director of Terralingua, to give a talk on her work on preserving biocultural diversity.  Luisa is in town to give a guest lecture in our university-wide undergraduate course Living Language: Science and Society.  Because of the topic of the talk, and because Land & Food Systems is one of the faculties that cross-lists the course (we currently have a couple of LFS students enrolled) we wanted to reach out to you as an LFS faculty member and VPRI research cluster lead, in case you have colleagues and students who might be interested in the talk. 

I’ve just sent around a save-the-date with Luisa’s biography (see text below my signature).  If you think it’s worth promoting in LFS or within your research cluster, please feel free to send it around, or to point me towards other folks you think might be interested! 

Warm regards, 

Ella Fund-Reznicek  MA
Coordinator
Language Sciences Initiative
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
4031 Audain Art Centre 6398 University Boulevard | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 822 7435
ella.fr@ubc.ca | @UBCLangScis
http://languagesciences.ubc.ca

I’m pleased to announce that we are welcoming Dr. Luisa Maffi, the Co-founder and Director of Terralingua, an international non-governmental organization that works to sustain the biocultural diversity of life, including language diversity, to give a Language Science Talk on Tuesday, November 20^th, from 5:00 – 7:00pm in room 120 of the C.K. Choi Building (1855 West Mall).  RSVP at https://bit.ly/2yQIlDh! 

The title and abstract for the talk are forthcoming, but for now, please read Dr. Maffi’s biography, per the Terralingua website: 

Luisa Maffi, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1994), is co-founder and Director of Terralingua, and spearheads Terralingua’s program of work. Trained in linguistics, anthropology, and ethnobiology, Luisa is one of the pioneers of the concept of biocultural diversity. Her interest in the relationships between language, culture, and the environment, and between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity led her to co-found Terralingua in 1996, and to launch the organization’s activities with the interdisciplinary conference “Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge, Endangered Environments” (Berkeley, California, U.S.A., 1996).

She was President of Terralingua from 1996 to 2006, and has been its Director since 2007. Since 2010 she has also been an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences at Royal Roads University, as well as an International Fellow of the Explorers Club. Luisa has conducted extended fieldwork in Somalia (1979-85) and Mexico (Chiapas, 1988-93; Chihuahua, 2000-2008), and has carried out research in China and Japan. She has written on a variety of topics ranging from Somali and Mayan linguistics to color categorization, ethnomedicine, traditional ecological knowledge, language maintenance and revitalization, indigenous peoples’ linguistic and cultural rights, culture and conservation, and the relationships between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity.

Among her key publications on biocultural diversity are the edited book On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), the coedited volume Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity (New York Botanical Garden Press, 2004), and the co-authored book Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook (Earthscan, 2010).

 

Warm regards,